LOS ANGELES — Who’s that on the back of your milk carton the morning after the Dodgers lost Game 3 of the National League Division Series to the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-3, on Wednesday night?
MISSING
Ōtani Shōhei
DATE MISSING: 10/1/25
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Brown
HEIGHT: 6-foot-3
BATS: Left
THROWS: Right
Of course you recognize that guy; Shohei Ohtani is only the greatest baseball player alive.
Check that swing – the greatest baseball player ever.
He’s Him, yeah? And so, no, good isn’t going to be good enough. Great wouldn’t even be good enough.
For $700 million, the Dodgers are right to expect marvelous Marvel-esque feats, superhuman stunts, for him to deliver two-way torment as only he can, the game’s only pitching-hitter/hitting-pitcher unicorn.
They’re right to be banking on O